Few more notes:
Crew 4 - Pilot, Copilot & 2 crew chiefs/ door gunners <-------------!!!!!!!!!!!! Why 7 injured, was one on deck and collateral damage from crash landing? Why the extra member? Engines 2 Two General Electric YT706-GE-700 engines Dimensions L (fuselage) - 15.2 m L (rotorspan) - 16.35 m W (rotorspan) - 14.1 m H - 5.13 m Max Gross Weight 24,500 lbs External Load Max 9,000 lbs Max Speed 150 knots + <-------------!!!!!!!!!!!! Cruise Speed 140 knots
It has two pylons on each wing to carry two 230 US gal (870 L) and two 450 US gal (1,700 L) tanks in total.[11] The four fuel tanks and associated lines and valves form the external extended range fuel system (ERFS).[28] U.S. Army UH-60s have had their ESSS modified into the crashworthy external fuel system (CEFS) configuration, replacing the older tanks with up to four total 200 US gal (760 L) crashworthy tanks along with self-sealing fuel lines.
Taiwan S-70C [41] In January 2010, the US announced a Foreign Military Sale of 60 UH-60Ms to Taiwan for the ROC Army.[42]
Roughly ~1000 miles each way, HIGHLY unlikely it flew all the way to Tianjin. https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Okinawa+Island/Tianjin,+China/@32.7156392,118.1691531,6z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m13!4m12!1m5!1m1!1s0x34e500fa163b8f1d:0xf1b3ae1525cb7d3a!2m2!1d127.945404!2d26.501301!1m5!1m1!1s0x35edfc621e2c0e87:0x847194b730884031!2m2!1d117.200983!2d39.084158
Ferry range for UH-60L... Ferry range: 1,380 mi[137]
Ferry range means the maximum range the aircraft can fly. This usually means maximum fuel load, optionally with extra fuel tanks and minimum equipment. It refers to transport of aircraft for use on remote location without any passengers or cargo.
Crash occurred at 02:00 8/12/15 (keep in mind this is +1 Tianjin time) 20 miles off the coast of Okinawa.
The first reports of a fire at a warehouse in the Binhai New Area began coming in at around 22:50 local time (14:50 UTC) on 12 August
The timing of this explosion is roughly 2.5 hours after said crash time...assuming the govt is being completely forthcoming about the timeframes of black ops "training missions".
What I think is more likely is said chopper, flew to container ship to extract team which had planted stuff on container ship destined for Tianjin. Chopper crashed on the hard landed on ship.
That is, if we are to go down the conspiracy theory path...